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To: Tai Jin who wrote (11669)	4/16/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

I agree, Tai - I certainly wouldn't use NT to do what Datek is doing - insufficient scalability. You are forced way too early into unworkable multi-server configurations. But irregardless, they need to do what I recently read that another online broker did (which one was it?). STOP ACCEPTING NEW ACCOUNTS UNTIL THEY ARE ABLE TO HANDLE THE ONES THEY ALREADY HAVE.

To: Tai Jin who wrote (11669)	4/16/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: nick nelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

Tai, As I recall, Web Street is using Apache not Netscape's server software. Is Datek using Netscape server software on NT boxes? If you were to take away the server problems... Datek is A-Ok in most areas. Perhaps we should concentrate on a chant... "Switch to Linux, switch to Apache, switch to anything ELSE... but throw-out NT!!" What about a 'routing' problem - could they be using cheap routers? Maybe Datek is 'Beta Testing' Microsoft's latest 'woopdy-do' operating system on US!! n